Of course they will be $60, except maybe for some casual / budget games that retail for $40-$50 like many Kinect titles. Do you honestly expect a company known for selling their 1st party games at full price more than 5 years after they've launched to not charge the same as what everyone else is for "HD" games?

But that brings up a much bigger point IMO... while yes HD games are always more expensive at launch, there are almost always sales on such games within the first month or so of release, and in 6-12 months most of these games are usually heavily discounted at retail by almost 50%, sometimes more depending on sales.

So the big question for me is... will Nintendo continue to sell their big 1st party games like NSMBU and Pikmin 3 at (presumably) $60 long after they've launched and price gouge consumers as much as they can, or will they cave in an follow suit with a "greatest hits" lineup that drops the price to like $20 or $30 within a year or two?

I think it's very likely that they will charge more. No doubt they are spending more to develop their games.

well not so long ago, before the economy crash, our dollar use to hover around  slight more than halve the value of the US dollar.

So retailers effectively charged double.

Now that our dollar is about the same or slight better than US at times, they still thought they could charge double. People started buying online (for games that ar enot region locked). So prices have dropped a LITTLE BIT.

Nintnedo DS is a good example of that. But sadly the 3DS is region locked for DS games as well so you kind of need to own a DS to play stuff you baught overseas.

What this has created is essentially stores are having all these 20% (about the average for electornic stuff) discount sales (fake as really they are just brining the price down to be on par). But when you walk into a store and see a $60 game with 20% off, then you go wow what a bargain lol.

Go back about 5 years and the only sales we really had was, Easter, Christmas all those public holiday type sales, Stocktake and after Chritmas sale. In contrast to now, some stores apepar to ALWAYS have a sale. Funnies ones are closing down sales and you see the store open for a further 1 to 2 years. Sure taking your sweet time to close down haha.