Casual games for the PS3?

I talked my step father in to getting a PS3 as a bluray player and intro HTPC.  He's interested in getting a game or two as well, and I'm having trouble finding something to recommend.  I'm trying to avoid anything off PSN, which has some great choices (Monkey Island 2 is perfect); I'd like to avoid the hassle of setting up the account, and I think he'd want something tangible for his first game.  He's played games before, but only really casual ones on the PC (Plants vs. Zombies is the last one, I think).  I think Heavy Rain would be great, but I don't think he'd get along with remotely complicated controls (at first, at least).  I know LBP will come up, but I think even that might be a little tough for someone who's never really used a console controller.
 
So, any ideas on a game that's not on PSN that is (very) simple and fun?

Flower. 
 
It is also an amazing game for people who don't enjoy casual games. Love me some Flower. 
 
If you do't want anything off the Playstation Store for whatever reason, get GT5.

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It takes 5 mins to set up a PSN account. I think you can even do it on a computer now. 
 
I'm trying to think of easy-to-learn games. It's kind of hard, since I've been playing since I was like 3 (my aunt had a SNES, and I'd play when we visited, even before GameBoys came out). 
 
Umm, probably something like MvC3 or SSFIV would be good to get into. I don't really like playing Capcom fighting games with a DualShock 3 (the stick is too sensitive, and I end up jumping half the time I try to hadouken), but if that's what he has, it'll be good. 
 
Going backwards, some throwback PS1 Classics might be good to start with. Spyro and Crash, things like that. Maybe Rock Band? Rock Band is always fun, and guitar controllers are cheap as hell nowadays. 
 
Tetris is always around. If you can find like Space Invaders and such, that's good as well. 
 
Honestly, I'd have many more recommendations if you'd said PS2, because there are many good intro games on the PS2 and other earlier consoles, while most PS3 games are quite complex.

• Flower
• Echochrome
• Shatter
• Peggle and Peggle Nights

He says he's trying to avoid stuff off of PSN, but why read?   
  
My suggestions:  
-Burnout Paradise 
-LittleBigPlanet 2
-Any Ratchet & Clank game on PS3

Red Dead Redemption - stick him on casual aiming and he'll have a blast.

"I'm trying to think of easy-to-learn games. It's kind of hard, since I've been playing since I was like 3  "

Does he like pinball? The Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams Collection is pretty good and you should be able to find it very cheap. 
 
What about golf? Hot Shots Golf is pretty good. 
 
Really, you should just take the minute or so to make a PSN account on the PlayStation website and get some downloadable games.

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