The stock 172 has some tuning issues with crosswinds right now, fairly easily resolved for the PC crowd, but a disaster for our XBox friends. Essentially when the new parameters for the ground winds were added, the 172 was setup so that it experiences 100% wind force right away, but the steering was left tuned for the wind force being gradually ramped up to 100%. So you run out of nosewheel before the rudder gains enough authority.
The easiest fix on PC is actually to go into the flight_model.cfg and under [CONTACT POINTS] change the value of min_available_steering_angle_pct from 0.2 to 1.0