I consider myself a previous Sega fan (had the genesis for my childhood, and an Atari before that (never owned a Master System).
I did play some "pirate" NES on my friends house (we had a lot of copies in Brazil), and my childhood friend and my cousin had SNES so I played it a lot over there as well but loved Sega way more than Nintendo at the time.
I was itching to get the Saturn (my cousin had one and I played Resident Evil there and Virtua Fighter and loved it), but when I played PS1 on a school friend house I was blowback and by the time I was 15 I had the money to buy my first console by myself (I saved the school trip money I received, got like R$300 and came back with 250, plus Xmas and Bday gifts I asked all in money so I had R$500, due to currency, taxes and grey market - PS only officially released in Brazil after PS3 time - it was like enough to buy 3 consoles in USA probably - this was on January 2000 so 280USD and PS1 was 99USD by that time and very close to PS2 launch) I bought a PS1 with 2 controllers (first model), one memory card and 10 pirate SW (Final Fantasy 9, Gran Turismo and Syphon Filter were there and became my love until now).
When Dreamcast was announced I was also eager for it, but well it didn't launch for a price I could afford at the time here in Brazil and well I had to keep saving scraps of money I got from relatives so well buying a new console took another 5 years (when I got PS2, close to PS3 launch).
The main reason I got PS1 instead of N64 was basically the price of console and SW (PS1 was bootlegged only titles) and that hooked me to Sony for years, Gamecube was similar reason for me to not get and Xbox Og came to late for me to even care. By the time of X360 I considered it (my brother had it and a friend as well), and well since already had a X360 readily available to play and was anticipating GT5 and some other titles I gone PS3 (my girlfriend had a travel to Canada and I was early in my first job so I was able to send money for her to bring PS3 with guitar hero kit and Uncharted, which well I loved =p) and seeing how much MS dropped the ball on the second half of that gen I never looked back on keeping PS instead of going Xbox. Nintendo never fully served me because of the poor 3rd party support and their first party titles being more expensive (second hand market and older games still can pay a lot less on PS), but I did play a lot of Wii and loved the concept and even got Move (and well bought a Wii for my collection) and well I do have all Nintendo consoles and quite some of their best 1st party but it is more for family than for myself.

Games are an inherently subjective medium; one man's trash is another man's treasure.
I prefer the SNES myself, but it's entirely possible for someone's personal tastes to align more closely with the Megadrive.
I mean, the PS2 sold like 7-8 times the Gamecube or Xbox and is widely considered the better console, but I personally enjoyed my Gamecube and my Xbox more than my PS2. It's all relative.

Piracy was just everywhere here, people from major markets like NA, JP and some major EU countries might not realize how much that impacted the gaming landscape here.

To this day I haven't met a person that owned the NES here back then, but loads of people with Phantom System and the likes.

People would rarely even know what having original game copies was before the PS3.

But as a fellow Brazilian it really pains me to read you writing Genesis instead of Mega Drive, seriously, lol.

i like the gamecube better too but its not going to kill me to admit the ps2 was better.

some gaps are just gigantic though, like the snes vs genesis or mario andretti vs super metroid. 

PS2 was a better console when you talk about quantity and versatility of SW, but when talking about the HW itself GC was marginally better (and if it had a proper DVD drive it would be no discussion superior).

And sorry to burst your bubble but there were some aspects on MD that were superior than SNES and that is why some genres played better on it, but in general SNES would be the better HW but as platform it would be perfectly fine to see MD as superior based on the library of your preference.

What games played better?  I had both a genesis and SNED and found the graphics, sound and controller significantly better on the SNES.  Don't get me wrong, genesis was a good console.  

The colors and sound, for me, was a huge advantage for the SNES.  Made games look way better.  

I didn't say a specific game played better, I said it was recognized to be better for some genres (like arcade shmups). Most of the titles on both consoles were either totally exclusive or made independently when the same game/IP so you would never have a real side/by side comparison.

for some of the few advantages MD had over SNES https://segaretro.org/Sega_Mega_Drive/Hardware_comparison