Nikon have released the P7000 in answer to Canon's G12. The P6000 was a very good camera but Canon over shadowed it and it wasn't widely stocked in my area, I couldn't find one shop that had one in for me to try
I still think the manufacturers should address the sensor size issue, if you buy a DSLR you're obviously into photography so you should be able to have a full frame sensor. High end compact and Bridge camera's should have APS-C sensors and then anything lower than that should have a sensor between the APS-C and the currently used size (s) with small ones being reserved for camera phone. Just my opinion.