S.T.A.G.E. on 19 June 2013
| Jumpin said: A gimmick is a characterization to attract attention but do not otherwise serve any real purpose. Nowadays when someone is talking about a gimmick, most of the time it has to do with a rapper's gimmick. For example, "Snoop Dogg" is a gimmick of Calvin Broadus, "Snoop Lion" is another one of his gimmicks. He uses these gimmicks purely to market his music, they serve no other purpose. When referring to consoles the new Wii colour introductions would be gimmicks, PS3 Slim would be a gimmick, etc... Actual controls which alter or add to the interface making games like Wii Sports possible is not a gimmick, it's a legitimate feature, like the D-pad, like analog sticks, etc... |
Snoop Dogg, is known as an Alias. Gimmicks don't last twenty plus years, its generally a short lived technological fad.
