This week in unplanned nonobsolescence: Nintendo’s Wii U, released to great fanfare just last fall, was outsold last quarter by Nintendo’s original Wii, which was released to great fanfare in the fall of, um, 2006.

Needless to say, this was not supposed to happen. As a Statista chart shows, Wii U sales started out all right, but dropped off a ledge almost immediately. It’s not as if people are flocking to the original Wii, either — its sales are also way down from last year’s numbers. It’s just that they’re flocking to the Wii U even less, buying only 160,000 units worldwide in the second quarter of 2013. Nintendo’s combined sales of the two consoles in that period failed to match the sales of the Wii alone from the same quarter last year.

Nintendo isn’t giving up on the Wii U just yet. A 3-D Mario title is due this Christmas season, along with Wii Fit U.