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“Nintendo Rallies as China’s Memory Expansion Eases “RAMpocalypse” Fears” 🚨🚨🚨

Shares of Nintendo climbed for a third straight trading session Tuesday as investors grew increasingly optimistic about the company’s hardware outlook ahead of the highly anticipated Switch 2 launch. Nintendo’s US-listed ADRs gained roughly 4% in morning trading, marking the stock’s strongest streak since early March.

The rally comes as the gaming giant benefits from two major developments: renewed excitement surrounding the return of the Switch 2 game bundle and signs that global memory supply pressures may finally be easing.

For much of the past year, Nintendo and other consumer electronics makers have struggled under what many investors dubbed the “RAMpocalypse” — a period of soaring memory prices fueled by explosive AI demand. As artificial intelligence companies rushed to secure high-performance chips and memory capacity, hardware makers found themselves competing for supply and paying significantly higher costs.

Unlike memory manufacturers that profited from the boom, Nintendo has largely been on the losing side of the equation. The company depends heavily on DRAM and other memory components for its gaming consoles, making rising prices a direct threat to margins during one of its most important hardware cycles in years.

Meanwhile, memory giant Micron Technology has benefited from the AI-driven surge in demand. Over the last 12 months, Micron shares have soared while many consumer electronics companies lagged behind under the pressure of rising component costs.

However, investors may now be betting that the worst of the supply crunch is beginning to fade.

Chinese DRAM producer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) announced in its latest quarterly results that it plans to significantly ramp up memory production while issuing bullish forward guidance. The company is also reportedly preparing for a major IPO later this year, which could become one of China’s biggest public offerings of 2026.

The increase in global memory production could help stabilize or even reduce component prices across the electronics industry. For Nintendo, that could translate into improved profitability just as it prepares for a critical console refresh cycle.

The recent move higher in Nintendo stock also reflects a broader market rotation currently underway. Many of the market’s biggest AI winners and momentum stocks have recently cooled off, while beaten-down names tied to consumer hardware and gaming have started attracting fresh investor interest.

With demand expectations rising for the Switch 2 and memory cost pressures potentially easing, investors appear increasingly confident that Nintendo could be entering a much stronger phase heading into the second half of the year.