Ok - I just bought a new XBox One without the Kinect camera (the new one they released on 9-Jun-2014).
Will the Thrustmaster TX 458 wheel work with Forza 5 on an XBox that doesn’t have a Kinect? Does the Thrustmaster TX 458 wheel use the Kinect in any way?
Just want to be 100% certain that I’m buying something that will be compatible with my system before I plunk down 4 bills on this wheel.
Thanks!
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I have a tx and have not even took the rapping off kinnect since launch!!!
No worries, it will work just fine without Kinect.
The only Kinect related feature of the TX is the pairing LEDs, a set of infrared LED’s that can be detected by Kinect in order to assign the controller to the console. However, given that it has a wired connection, this feature is redundant somehow. Only thing i could think of is that Kinect will switch the player profile if someone else takes a seat behind the wheel. Using the LED’s together with the face recognition, Kinect might be able to sense the driver swap and changes the active profile accordingly.
Ahh – OK. I watched a video on the Thrustmaster TX and they made mention of something about the Kinect sensing the person who was behind the wheel, and it suddenly occurred to me that I might be s.o.l. if I tried to use it with my non-Kinect XBox.
Thanks for clarifying that for me – much appreciated.
Off to order me a Thrustmaster TX. Yay! 
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If you CAN afford the gte wheel / it makes the plastic wheel feel like a toy/ night and day difference! Do you like how much better the wheel feels with the new rim and want to up it another notch? Add a set of t-500 pedals forget 3pa, the t500s take your rig to the next level, I have already upgraded to all those and that set up with a wheel stand and THIS SET UP ROCKS!!! I HAVE SO MUCH FUN RUNNING MY BLOWN C7 VETTE DOWN THE RING!!!
Jared, did you spring for the Ricmotech brake mod for your T500 pedals yet?