This is how the games industry excludes women: By pretending we don't exist and having dev parties with strippers. pic.twitter.com/9GsYyEAQOo — Jennifer Scheurle (@Gaohmee) March 18, 2016

Spencer said the party "represented Xbox and Microsoft in a way that was not consistent or aligned to our values" and went on to call it "unequivocally wrong." Head of Xbox marketing Aaron Greenberg had earlier chimed in about the incident on Twitter, saying he was "very disappointed" and looking into the matter.

Spencer's full statement is below.

At Xbox-hosted events at GDC this past week, we represented Xbox and Microsoft in a way that was not consistent or aligned to our values. It was unequivocally wrong and will not be tolerated. I know we disappointed many people and I'm personally committed to holding ourselves to higher standards. We must ensure that diversity and inclusion are central to our everyday business and core values. We will do better in the future.

The Xbox event was particularly questionable considering that the company hosted a women in games lunch event at GDC -- clearly an example of one part of the company not knowing what the other was doing. We'd expect not to see another incident like this associated with Microsoft or Xbox any time soon, but it's still rather mind-boggling that someone gave the green light to it in the first place.

Update: 4:00PM ET: Microsoft posted a letter that Phil Spencer has sent to the entire Xbox staff in which he expands on the comments made in today's public statement. Read it below: