Talk:Game Updates/@comment-4738639-20130919172220/@comment-4853433-20130921000809

As it has been noted, DragonVale still supports devices as far back as the iPod touch 3 and iPhone 3GS and as far back as iOS 4.3. It is doubtful that overnight they would raise the requirement to iOS 7. The only device they ever cut from the support list was the iPod touch 2, which was done last year, and there have been none since.

Almost the entire "mechanic" changes of the OS are all appearance only; not much has actually changed in the internal parts of it. DV and other apps will continue to run on iOS 6 and below, as long as the app doesn't have any specific hardware requirements.

If the newest 3D games come out though, you can expect them to not work on older devices–that is just how hardware works as older generations get outdated.

And in all honesty, the iPhone 3GS came out in 2009 and iPod touch 4 in 2010. It only is no longer getting updated now in 2013. This was no different than the original iPhone (and iPod touch), released in 2007 and dumped in 2010; the iPhone 3G (and iPod touch 2G), released in 2008 and dropped from iOS in 2011, and far better than the iPad 1, which was released in 2010 and dropped from iOS in 2012.