I'm not sure, honestly. There's a couple of games that I'm looking forward to (Layton, Animal Crossing, Zelda), and it's impressed me so far. But the thing that's holding me back is not the price, but the region locking.
...I think I'll wait until the region locking is broken. I really like imports, but I'm not sure if I would be willing to get a Japanese 3DS and import every single game I wanted.
$249.99 isn't too horrible considering that it's pretty much the lovechild of a DS, a Wii, and 3D..