According to 43rumors Olympus will revolutionize its PEN cameras. Apparently the E-PL3 is more successful camera than the E-P3, or at least the demand for Olympus E-PL3 exceeded the expectations of the company, probably because of tilting screen and lower price. It is reasonable to expect migration of the latest sensor and stabilization system into PEN body. Will Olympus eventually produce E-P5 as version of OM-D E-M5 without a viewfinder and E-PL5 with smaller number of buttons? Just keep the tilting screen...
In addition, the expected replacement of premium compacts from Olympus and Panasonic may have 1' sensor as Sony RX100 and Nikon 1 cameras. I suspect other companies will follow the same route very soon. It is obvious that people are ready to pay top price for compact camera with good image quality. Sony have proved that it is possible to build very compact camera with relatively big sensor and open a new niche in compact camera market. There are people around who would like to have a camera with twice more pixels than the Olympus XZ-1 but with the same quality, and doubling the sensor size might be the best solution.
The gap in sizes between 2/3' and 4/3 sensors is way too big, and Nikon was the first to realize this and produced the sensor sitting in the middle.
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