Just looking at two recent threads https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/247928 and https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/249330 some members believe PB is in trouble, some believe MM is in trouble and a few believe both games are in trouble. Because there are many states playing both games there are many reasons why one game should do better than the other at times. Last week the reason was a no brainer when the MM jackpot was $13 million and the PB jackpot was $181 million.
From the state lotteries point of view (especially from those now offering both games) , the only question is how much more profit would a third large jackpot game create. The real profits are generated when the size of either jackpot triggers a ticket selling frenzy so if there is a real potential for more ticket buying frenzies by creating a third game, the state lotteries will do it.
For those playing both games every drawing, the minimum cost is now $6 a week and a third game would add at least another 2 bucks. Do we really need another huge jackpot game where the odds against any one ticket winning anything is one ticket out of every 32 tickets sold on the $2 game, one ticket out of 40 on the $1 game, or another 1 in 175 million chance of winning the jackpot?
When MM had what I would consider the only "must win jackpot" on March 30, 2012, of the 652 million tickets sold, 636 million of those tickets won nothing. The more optimistic dreamers will say a third game will give more chances of winning a huge jackpot, but in reality unless that third games gives a much better overall chance of winning something, it will just create more losing tickets.