Focus on the small planets?

From the latest estimates of the Geneva group became known that the incidence of small planets are several times more than the gas giants - 40-60% versus 13%.
Many projects are aimed precisely at finding smaller planets - HARSP, Keck, APF, AAT, WTS, MEath, COROT, Kepler...
On the other hand there are many projects that will expand the number of known gas giant planets (eg transit hot jupiters) to many thousands - SuperWASP, HAT, MARVELS, GAIA, and photographic projects. In general, extrasolar planetary science, there are two directions - intensive (search for small planets) and extensive (search for gas giants). Which one will prevail?
Now according to the Encyclopedia of the proportion of small planets from 2002 to 2010 increased from 1% to 12%. In 2009, a quarter of all the planets were announced on a small planets! For the micro-lens of the planets that share reaches almost half, but such planets discovered so far too little.

Green color is the world's proven method of radial velocities, the blue is a micro-lens of the
planets.

I personally think that the population of small planets will be dominant in the 2021-2025 years, when begin work 20-40 meter ground-based telescopes with new spectrographs (such as CODEX) and to confirm the most planets discovery Kepler and PLATO.

In addition - in the Solar System have 6 small planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Uranus and Neptune) vs 2 gas giants (Saturn and Jupiter). I.e. difference in the three times!

I don't think I'll be alive to see that.
Kepler, CoRoT, Plato, and whoever else are going to find tens of thousands of hot Jupiters. I suspect the RV confirmation won't be able to keep up for small planets.

Edit: At least until a sizable fraction of the hot Jupiters in the Galaxy are found. And then when it's simply easier to detect the faint RV signature of a sub-Jovian around a nearby star than to detect the scattered low S/N ratio RV signature of a hot Jupiter around a distant, dimmer star.

Sirius_Alpha wrote:

Edit: At least until a sizable fraction of the hot Jupiters in the Galaxy are found.

http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/0910.2887

Quote :

We used data of the Tycho catalog for about 1 million objects to locate all the stars with 0m < m_V < 11.5m on the celestial plane. The sky-integrated magnitude distribution predicts 20 Hot Jupiter transits with orbital periods between 1.5 d and 50 d and m_V < 8m, of which two are currently known. In total, we expect 3412 Hot Jupiter transits to occur in front of MS stars within the given magnitude range.

We know a few percent of that number of hot jupiters with bright stars. In the coming years, projects SuperWASP and HAT discover hundreds of hot jupiters.

So it is more correct to ask a question, astronomers will be sought to confirm the small or large planet? Seeking an intensive or extensive way?

I think it more likely the focus of the search will be on the smaller planets. Human ego dictates looking for an Earth-analogue. This has been a goal for decades, if not centuries (think Bruno.)

-M-