What if Sega preferred Eternal Champions?

As most of us know, back in 1995, Sega was faced with a situation, of picking between Virtua Fighter and Eternal Champions. in the end, they axed the latter. now imagine. what if they axed the former instead.

1995

 * Mid 1995: Sega Chooses to axe Virtua Fighter in favor of Eternal Champions.
 * A day after: Yu Suzuki and several other officials at Sega resign from the company in protest(some however wil lreturn to work for Sega wit hthe passsage of time)
 * Autumn 1995: Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter is goign into troubled productions, as a result. Sega of Japan pressures Sega of AMerica and Michael Latham to remake the game from scratc has a competitive 3D fighting game.
 * Late 1995: Yu Suzuki is aproached by Tecmo and Tomonobu Itakagi, and is asked b ythem if he wants to help them on their upcoming fightign game called Dead or Alive. to which he agrees.

1996

 * Early 1996: Sega of Japan(afraid of losing more officials and money) is reconsidering their strategy and plan on making a 64-Bit add-on for the Sega Saturn, while patching things up with their slowly returning former company officials.
 * Mid 1996: Trip Hawkins is aproached by Bill Gates. the latter is interested i nintering the console market on Microsoft's behalf while the former's company is in a financial struggle.
 * E3:
 * Mid-To Late 1996: Ed Logg is aproached by Richard Miller.
 * 26 November 1996: Dead or Alive is released for the Sega Model 3 Arcade Board.
 * 1996: X-Perts is released for the Sega 32X

1997

 * E3:
 * 24 September 1997: Microsoft purchase Rareware from Nintendo.

1998

 * E3:
 * 1998: Nintendo officially discontinues the Nintendo 64

1999

 * E3:

2000

 * E3:

2001

 * E3:

2002

 * 30 April 2002: Sega officially discontinues the Sega Saturn
 * E3:

2003

 * E3:

2004

 * E3:

2005

 * E3:

2006

 * 23 March 2006: Sony officially discontinues the PlayStation 1
 * 31 March 2006: Sega officially discontinues the Dreamcast
 * E3:

2007

 * E3:
 * 2007: Nintendo officially discontinues the GameCube

2008

 * E3:
 * 2008: Atari officially discontinues the Nuon

2009

 * E3:

2010

 * E3:

2011

 * E3:

2012

 * E3:
 * 31 December 2012: Sega officially discontinues the HyperScan

2013

 * 4 January 2013: Sony officially discontinues the PlayStation 2
 * E3:
 * 30 October 2013: Nintendo officially discontinues the Wii

2014

 * 2 March 2014: Microsoft officially discontinues the Xbox Next
 * E3:

2015

 * E3:

2016

 * 20 April 2016: Microsoft officially discontinues the Xbox 360
 * E3:

2017

 * 29 May 2017: Sony officially discontinues the PlayStation 3
 * E3:

2018

 * E3:

2019

 * E3:

2020

 * E3: