During a shareholder meeting at Nintendo, company CEO Satoru Iwata was asked about how they would be handling the online pricing for the company’s upcoming Wii U. Thankfully Iwata responded by saying that charging any kind of subscription fee would be inappropriate and that while he believes online fees aren’t bad on their own, he wants fans to be able to access Miiverse for free so that it becomes popular that way.
Besides this bright piece of information a number of other questions were asked and Andriasang has collected and translated most of the pertinent questions and their answers here.