Fez 2 Not Coming To Microsoft Consoles

<p>Many gamers have played Polygon&&num;8217&semi;s fantastic indie game&comma; Fez&comma; by now&period; Originally launched as an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive&comma; Fez has most recently launched on Steam to satisfy the hunger for PC gamers which has seemed to done quite well for Phil Fish and his team&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; the recently announced Fez II &lpar;which many assumed would follow a similar release schedule to the original&rpar; has been confirmed to be NOT coming to either the Xbox One or Xbox 360&period; According to Phil Fish himself&comma; this is due to Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s continuing refusal to allow indie developers to self-publish on Xbox Live&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Phil Fish tweeted the follow saying&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&&num;8220&semi;thing is the patch is irrelevant to the situation&period; i would develop for xbone if they&&num;8217&semi;d let me&period; but they won&&num;8217&semi;t&period; THAT&&num;8217&semi;s the fucking story&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&lpar;in reply to one Twitter user asking &&num;8220&semi;&commat;PHIL&lowbar;FISH did I miss something&quest; why wont they let you&quest;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;im independent and i don&&num;8217&semi;t have a publisher&period; i can&&num;8217&semi;t release games on xbone&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;i&&num;8217&semi;d love to release my games on every platform&comma; but microsoft is making it impossible for me to release on theirs&period; it&&num;8217&semi;s a shame&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;PHIL&lowbar;FISH&sol;status&sol;347704234646568960">Twitter<&sol;a> &amp&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2013&sol;6&sol;20&sol;4445476&sol;phil-fish-on-fez-2-ambition-and-launch-platforms-not-xbox">Polygon<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2013&sol;06&sol;21&sol;fez-2-wont-be-coming-to-xbox-one-or-xbox-360">IGN<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;8d45cecd-09ad-4e01-968e-17994ed3f2d7" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;