FEZ Sells More Than 200,000 Copies In First Year

<p>Phil Fish of Polytron-fame has announced that hit-indie title FEZ has sold more than 200&comma;000 copies since it was first introduced on the Xbox Live Arcade service one year ago&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game was originally released on the 13th April 2012 and is due to be released on Steam from the 1st May 2013 so if you haven&&num;8217&semi;t been able to give the game a go you&&num;8217&semi;ll be given a chance to do so pretty soon&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In an interview&comma; Phil Fish said&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&&num;8220&semi;Since it came out last year&comma; FEZ has now sold 200&comma;000 units on XBLA alone&period; Which is completely fucking crazy when you think about it&period; The game really found its audience &lpar;or the audience found it&quest;&rpar;&period; Everyday we get far more love mail than hate mail&period; Every other day people send us fan art&comma; or a picture of a Gomez cake&comma; or a quilt they made&comma; a Drawing&comma; a plushie&period; seeing people&&num;8217&semi;s notebooks filled with deconstructions of the puzzles and mysteries I had so much fun putting together has been a particularly rewarding experience&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition to this&comma; Renaud Bedard&comma; who was a programmer for FEZ commented on the news&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&&num;8220&semi;Even though I left Polytron a while ago&comma; FEZ is that kind of elastic string that pulls you back every once in a while&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ve been hard at work on the PC version and I&&num;8217&semi;m very happy that the game will finally reach a broader audience&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Will you be giving FEZ the time it deserves when it launches on new platforms next month&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;stumbleupon&period;com&sol;su&sol;2zmftW&sol;www&period;gamesindustry&period;biz&sol;articles&sol;2013-04-15-fez-sells-200-000-copies-on-xbla">Game Industry<&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;" alt&equals;"" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;8347809c-3047-4575-b4f6-d88fa526caba" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;