An anonymous business inside source has leaked prices for Nintendo 3DS development hardware exclusively to Planet 3DS. The below list contains prices for the development system itself (“Partner-CTR”, made by Kyoto Microcomputer), as well as special development systems dubbed “Panda” (most likely those units we saw leaks of early January) and flash cards for use with these. As we were told, this is only a part of the 3DS development items that are available to licensed developers through the Nintendo Software Development Support Group (SDSG).

Part #
 Item Price
73056 PARTNER-CTR DEBUGGER $2,650
73058 PARTNER-CTR DEBUGGER/CAPTURE (Dual Functionality) $3,950
73065 Nintendo 3DS (Development only) “Panda” USA $325
73066 Nintendo 3DS (Development only) “Panda” EU $325
73067 Nintendo 3DS (Development only) “Panda” AUS $325
73062 Flash Card, 16 Gbits (2 GBytes) CTR $85
73063 Backup Memory, 1Mbit (128 KBytes) Flash CTR $8.50
73064 Backup Memory, 4Mbits (512 KBytes) Flash CTR $10.50

These are definitely very attractive prices if you keep in mind that the prices for Wii development kits are still at about the same level, or the GBA kit being about €7,000 originally. It seems Nintendo has learned a lot since the days of unreasonably priced N64 dev kits and are offering cheaper dev kits from generation to generation, allowing especially smaller studios to develop titles for their systems.