The new trend is mining altcoins with specialised GPU algos. So yes, ASIC Scrypt mining investment just doesn't make sense to me, because it's too much risks and it's not much better than building a GPU miner, in terms of hashing rate (at least for now).

With GPU mining you get all of these benefits:
a) big community support (even from the old bitcoin community who still have GPU rigs/farms)
b) adaptable to mine new generation altcoins that are still popping out every day, with slight changes that only require modded CGMiner (with an ASIC Scrypt miner, you will probably be stuck mining certain existing coins)
c) if anything goes wrong, Bitcoins crashes, etc. you still can recoup the investment by selling back the computer parts on eBay.

For strategic investment point of view, the saving in power consumption from ASIC scrypt miner just isn't worth it's risk and limited potential, tbh.