The planned 1988 launch line-up of CD-i looked a lot different compared to what it looked like in 1991, when CD-i was finally released to the market

Another never-happened CD-i that was planned to be released around 1989 adds to the original plans to release CD-i a lot earlier than the actual 1991 release date. History shows that Philips was delaying the release several times while in the end not adapting any of the specifications. The original hardware spec was set in stone around 1989, with that all signs look like Philips planned the CD-i ot release to market around 1988-1989, while in the end CD-i was released in 1991. What comes with this is that the videogames market changed significantly those years and several software releases were in the end cancelled because CD-i was delayed. A nice example is Electronic Arts stepping out of the development road while first being active on CD-i, until 1989. The development of their own 3DO platform might in fact be a reaction of their choice not to continue with CD-i, because they were depending too much on the delays of Philips.

We've seen several CD-i announcements that never happened on CD-i, and several were dated between 1988-1989 as well, indicating that in the original plans the software line-up could have been different when these software projects were not cancelled along the way (just because the CD-i release didn't happen. Especially for multi-platform games this was tricky as a developer could not permit itself to launch a CD-i version two years after other platform releases. For some of them, they show a different type of games on CD-i that in the end we do have, like the Cinemaware CD-i titles that were originally made on Amiga, thanks to Philips POV being part of Philips itself. Titles like Defender of the Crown, Lords of the Rising Sun for example are pretty different compated to what CD-i is known for.

CD-i member vws adds another title to the could-have-been launch line-up of CD-i in 1989: French developer Titus apparently planned a CD-i release of their 1988 multiplatform title Titan. It was announced in Ace Magazine. Titus was in fact active on CD-i development longer than this, and they did in the end release L'Affair Morlov on CD-i in 1996. The Titan CD-i announcement was probably not finished and probably even just an announcement, as they were even calling it 'for the forthcoming Sony/Philips CD-i platform.