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There's a few ways to look at that, the first being that 500gb seems like a lot anyway.
But that rather depends on how long MS intend for this generation to last.
As it stands, my Xbox 360 has a 250gb HDD and about 70gb of that is still free, simply because I have about 5 full games downloaded via GoD and various DLC for my games.
Given that the Xbox One is boasting features that allow it to capture gameplay video, games will be switching to blu-ray format and the ever increasing emphasis on DLC, this could be filled up quicker than we might think.
Especially if it includes DVR functionality of television.
For HD TV content, you really want 1TB to be safe, and that's without the gaming aspects.
The 20gb HDD the 360 launched with (in reality about 13gb useable) was plenty at the time, but it became a serious handicap years ago.
The obvious solution is cloud storage. Given that the console needs to 'phone home' anyway, that probably becomes more viable.
The other will of course be newer models with bigger HDDs.
The very good news about this?
None of that utter nonsense about games developers having to make games in such a way that they function properly on consoles without an HDD.
They can now take proper advantage of this, as the Original Xbox did.
We can also probably expect install times, ala PS3 (not too big of a deal since I install Xbox 360 games anyway, but let me tell you, some PS3 installs take forever).