Irondog, it's sad to say, but if it's not a FPS, it will probably stay on the back-burner forever.
I've seen more than one thread on these very boards that ask HTC to incorporate playable infantry, to bring a FPS aspect to a flight sim, of all things!!!
If you take the entire Video game market, everything from sports to sims, from Home-console boxes to PC's, you'll find that sub sims are the black sheep of the family, in terms of sales.
Ubisoft, like any other company, is gonna take care of it's primary cash-cows first.