Metal Gear Solid fans start saving yen now. Kojima Productions plans on releasing Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D with a special Nintendo 3DS. Hideo Kojima shared a picture of the system, which he says will be the video game industry’s first snake pattern embossed hardware. More details about the snakeskin 3DS will be announced on January 20.

Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D comes out on March 8 in Japan. Konami will release the title (but probably not the snakeskin system) in North America in Q1 2012.