The way of distribution can't decide the fate of any altcoin. The most important part is its feature and the dev team.NXT has more potential, which has a great dev team!
Actually distribution is directly correlated across alt coins and all economic systems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x23C1sQg6wQ
Maybe it is not important how many people have the stakes but who those people are and with which aims they control part of the currency?