Thanks a lot for so interesting information. I have to confess I knew nothing about MSX software from the Netherlands. 
This caused my wrong conclusion that the MSX2 models were not numerous in this country. However, were there any good games for the MSX2 created in Europe? And it is still very odd for me that the Netherlands' neighbors Germany and Belgium missed the MSX almost completely. The rich Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway) somehow missed the MSX too.
Sweden was, much like USA dominated by Nintendo and Commodore (ZX Spectrum also had some success). My family didn't have a computer back in the day (we had a NES like most other Swedes at the time), but I know that MSX1 definitely had a presence in Sweden as it was always included in computer magazines. There were also Spectravideo enthusiasts that eventually turned into a small MSX community with their own magazine and newsletters. It seems to have died around the time MSX2 came along though, which is weird to me as MSX2 is so much better than MSX1.
In USA Microsoft seems to have deliberately stopped the MSX from being too popular but that's probably not the case in Scandinavia. Probably it's just that it's too small a market for having both Commodore and MSX selling large numbers at the same time like they did in Japan. I can't speak for Germany though which should have been a large enough market to have room for both. I have a feeling that video games and computers were just not as big in central Europe as in the north and south Europe at the time.
