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.
 * 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

 * 24 September 1997: Microsoft purchase Rareware from Nintendo.

1998

 * 1998: Nintendo ifficialy discontinues the Nintendo 64