I suggest that you first try to present her games with a nice story, that she can watch while you play - and even suggest interactions. Games like Heavy Rain would do the trick. Later, she couls be presented to games with puzzles - and try to solve them with you (the Uncharted serie would do this trick). You can even just do this - believe in me, having your wife watching you play and even helping you out is as nice as her being your player 2... After seing games as a media for interesting stories and started to interact with them, she would be ready to take the joystick, maybe with coop games like Little Big Planet. This approach really worked for me - in fact, it was my wife that asked me to answer this.
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I suggest that you first try to present her games with a nice story, that she can watch while you play - and even suggest interactions. Games like Heavy Rain would do the trick. Later, she couls be presented to games with puzzles - and try to solve them with you (the Uncharted serie would do this trick). You can even just do this - believe in me, having your wife watching you play and even helping you out is as nice as her being your player 2...
After seing games as a media for interesting stories and started to interact with them, she would be ready to take the joystick, maybe with coop games like Little Big Planet.
This approach really worked for me - in fact, it was my wife that asked me to answer this.