Halo 3 Commercial up on Xbox Marketplace

Posted By: Duncan Mackenzie | Dec 5th, 2006 @ 1:46 PM

~~So the~~ ~~Halo 3 'trailer/ad/commercial'~~ went up on the Xbox Marketplace yesterday (after it played during Monday Night Football), so later that night I jumped onto my 360 to download it. Imagine my surprise when I found it that it costs money to download and watch a commercial... 150 points! I think that is only about $1.88 in 'real money', but still... sadly, I might end up paying for it, but I think I'll just wait for someone to upload a high resolution copy up onto the Internets for me... what about you?

Update: Major Nelson's posts about this say it is free and at least one on10 member downloaded it for free as well... so either I was too tired from coding last night and read it wrong or I ran into a momentary glitch.... I'll start pulling my foot out of my mouth now.

You can view the commercial online, if you can't wait to go home and download the 720p version.

Tags: Halo, xbox 360, Xbox Live

Rating:

Comments (6)

Downloads

_Hardman_

I downloaded it okay last night off live for no price.

Maybe they charged for "silver" members instead of free for the "gold" members? But you're probably a gold member too...so maybe it was up for a price and they later changed it to free or the other way around.

Hmmmm...

TeddyB

Eh, I'll just wait for a better version online.

Duncan

In reply to _Hardman_

#Dec 5th, 2006 @ 2:16 PM

Odd... I'll check again when I'm online, but I was pretty sure I saw it up for 150 pts

TeddyB

In reply to Duncan

#Dec 5th, 2006 @ 3:58 PM

I'll check too in a bit. Seems like it should be free. Charging for a video you can see for free online seems a little.... Sony Tongue Out

V360

Last night, both the 480p and 720p versions were free on XBL Marketplace. I'm not sure if they are still free, or not, but I hope they stay free.

I missed the MNF airing, because of work, but I think the commercial is awesome! Even though it's not from the game, that CGI animation (and even the sound) was fantastic! I especially liked the force-field part =) Can't wait for Halo 3. Master Chief is a pimp!

TeddyB

I checked it out and it's free. But the new Halo 3 theme is 150 so maybe that caused the confusion.