In fact NXT is just a Ripples-clone with a few extra features, so it's value can always be manipulated by founders and/or developers.
But if the exchange-markets are deep enough 1 NXT should be around 0.1 XRP.
Anyway, before investing you have to inspect and analyse the distribution among the stakeholders, especially the orginating, of this 'premined' currency.
My question is where or how?
Not really sure how to investigate it but i currently have 12,683 all purchased at 0.00011000 or higher. I was thinking i could grab some, stake them and then come back to the machine in a few months to sell the profit, but currently the forging software crashes so frequently that i have stopped leaving the machine on as it simply burns electricity >.< and am just waiting to see if the value of coins goes up, like any other currency.
Im not a fan of calling the call "Second Generation" because as you have pointed out, its pretty similar to Ripple and i heard about that before almost every single "First generation" alt coin
I really dont know where NXT will go, but im gambling with profits from other investments so im not overly worried if it does turn out to be a monumental hoax and i end up losing my 1.16btc (its current value)