Racing wheels and limited full button support on Xbox

Nearly everyone in these forums are just fellow gamers. I have read your post in the past but have no knowledge of steering wheel button mapping so I did not answer. Perhaps there are no gamers here that have an answer to your question. You did your own
research and found some sort of answer. Sorry that no one here had an answer for you. We are just gamers like you.

The fact there has been zero response to this is damning - do Microsoft moderators/ product ambassadors/ product experts even read these threads?

I am happy to be corrected on what I am about to say, but since I have received no response, I did a bit more digging.

My further research into this indicates the issue of additional button support rests with Microsoft Xinput, as game developers are hampered by this and cannot code for additional buttons on wheels that are not natively supported by Xbox controller input
(Xinput).

This issue doesnt seem to be being adressed anytime soon.

Limitations abound on the platform; voice commands on games can only be achieved using Kinect, not via a headset with microphone - and the Kinect device is now discontinued!

Both additional button support and voice commands are supported on PlayStation - for gamers it is simply light-years ahead, and their “for the players” tag line has never been more apt, especially for sim racers.

I will be moving off Xbox to PlayStation or PC at the first opportunity, and advising everyone I know to do the same.

It’s good to know no-one seems to care given the lack of response - and is the final nail in the Xbox coffin for me.

Over and out.

Like I said before I enjoy using my wheel but it was more of a rant that I wanted to upgrade my wheel to one with more buttons to make it a little easier and a better experience but cannot because xbox limit the amount of buttons you can map to them.

https://support.thrustmaster.com/en/product/ferrarif1addon-en/

If you look at the button mapping for xbox on that wheel the amount of duel mapping is laughable, it should a simple solution to allow all the buttons to be mapped for full use not having 4 buttons mapped to A because the poor OS doesn't allow anything else

Something I forgot to add is that it won't recognize my Fanatec CSR wheel. It sees it as a MS racing Wheel and I am unable to properly adjust button assignments. There is also no support for Force Feedback adjustment or Advance wheel settings like steering
sensitivity or deadzone settings

Speed wheel works better for driving than the controller but can't figure out why no bumper buttons or a way to map bumper buttons with other button combos. Some driving games like Need for Speed: Shift say they support wheel but then require the bumper
buttons to navigate through the race selections properly. Microsfoft at it again, not seeing the big picture.