atari2600land's Blog

Nah, the DS isn't dead - it lives on even in the "new 3DS XL" (as opposed to the GBA, which died with the DSi). So there's logic for companies to keep making DS games - it maximizes the number of possible buyers while minimizing the development costs.

 

And just look at these last few releases - licensed shovelware; exactly the kind of "game" which needs to minimize development costs (the license is probably the majority of the cost) and maximize the number of suckers who might buy it.

But why would they buy the DS version of a game if there is a 3DS version as well?

There were 154 million DSs made versus 50 million 3DSs; so by making a DS version they quadruple the potential number of buyers - probably without significantly increasing the development & licensing costs. (And I didn't mean to imply you are a sucker - you're a collector.)